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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

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. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

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People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

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The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

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My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

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Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

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Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

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He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

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Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

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Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

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Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

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Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

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Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

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You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

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To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

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